Dynamic content designed for the way today''s students read, think, and learn brings concepts to life Integrated within the narrative, interactives and videos empower students to engage with concepts and take an active role in learning. Revel (tm) uniquely presents media as an intrinsic part of course content, bringing the hallmark features of Pearson''s bestselling titles to life. The Revel media interactives have been designed for quick completion, and videos are brief, so students stay focused and on task. Located throughout Revel, quizzing affords students opportunities to check their understanding at regular intervals before moving on. The Revel mobile app lets students read, practice, and study -- anywhere, anytime, on any device. Content is available both online and offline, and the app syncs work across all registered devices automatically, giving students great flexibility to toggle between phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day. The app also lets students set assignment notifications to stay on top of all due dates. The Revel writing functionality , available in select courses, enables educators to integrate writing -- among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking -- into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden.
Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading. Assignable Shared Writing Activities direct students to share written responses with classmates, fostering peer discussion. Essays integrated directly within Revel allow instructors to assign the precise writing tasks they need for the course. Highlighting, note taking, and a glossary let students read and study however they like. Educators can add notes for students, too, including reminders or study tips. An innovative, genre-based writing guide Introduces analyzing and composing in diverse genres, such as posters, editorial and opinion pieces, essays, and research projects. Chapters 1-3 introduce students to the basics of the composing process, with an emphasis on the rhetorical concepts of audience, purpose, context, and design. Chapter 4 on "researching" walks students through the research process, from developing an initial research question to producing a research project.
Chapters 5-7 teach students key vocabulary and concepts for working in each of the three "modes" of communication -- written, visual, and oral. Here each "mode" is treated in depth, in its own chapter, with numerous examples and practice assignments. Chapter 8 on "advocacy" teaches students how they can use written, visual, and oral communication to advocate for change and to do work in the "public" world. It also includes several readings that show others practicing such "civic" communication. In Chapters 10-14, students learn about different genres by first doing a rhetorical analysis, then reading examples of each genre, and finally developing compositions of their own in each genre. "Thinking through production" assignments encourage students to practice composing in different genres and to use the tools of written, visual, and oral communication. Reading selections are diverse and engaging, ranging from Gary Smith''s "Higher Education" to U.S.
wartime recruiting posters to opinion pieces concerned with video game violence to Lynda Barry''s "Common Sense." Compose, Advocate, Design is written and designed by the authors , Anne Wysocki and Dennis Lynch. The authors have attempted to practice good principles of written and visual communication and to create a learning resource with a distinctive look and voice. New in the 3rd Edition NEW! Enhanced focus on multimodality: A new chapter (Chapter 9) pulls together the previous three chapters on writing, oral presentations, and visual communication to help students think directly about composing using different modes. In Chapter 9, they can follow how a student composes a web page using the research developed in Chapters 5-8. ENHANCED! Enhanced rhetorical focus: In response to feedback from teachers and students, the rhetorical focus of Compose, Design, Advocate has been enhanced. There are now more sample rhetorical analyses and an enhanced discussion of persuasion in Chapters 1 and 10-15. NEW! New readings and visual samples: Chapters 10-15 contain almost a host of all new readings and visual examples in addition to the best of the previous editions.
NEW! New learning outcomes: Discusses the outcomes and how students might use them. We list each outcome, tied to its particular place in the narrative. NEW! More student sample texts: This edition includes new student texts REVISED! Research develops into a paper, an oral report, a photo essay, a web page: In Chapters 4 through 9, as part of the expansion of sample student writing, students can see how one student carries out research (including developing an annotated bibliography) and then uses that research to develop a draft and a final revision of a written research paper, an oral report with supporting slides, an argumentative photo essay, and a web page. NEW! Analyzing video: A new chapter (Chapter 15) demonstrates how to analyze and write about videos. Superior assignability and tracking tools help educators make sure students are completing their reading and understanding core concepts The Revel assignment calendar allows educators to indicate precisely which readings must be completed on which dates. This clear, detailed schedule helps students stay on task by eliminating any ambiguity as to which material will be covered during each class. When they understand exactly what is expected of them, students are better motivated to keep up. The Revel performance dashboard empowers educators to monitor class assignment completion as well as individual student achievement.
Actionable information, such as points earned on quizzes and tests and time on task, helps educators intersect with their students in meaningful ways. For example, the trending column reveals whether students'' grades are improving or declining, helping educators to identify students who might need help to stay on track. Integration of Revel and Blackboard Learn(tm) provides institutions, instructors, and students easy access to their Revel courses. With single sign-on, students can be ready to access the interactive blend of authors'' narrative, media, and assessment on their first day. Flexible, on-demand grade synchronization capabilities allow educators to control exactly which Revel grades should be transferred to the Blackboard Gradebook.